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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Liberals Will Get Us All Killed

By Alan
Caruba

The news
from Sydney, Australia was of another incident in which a lone Islamic fascist
took civilians hostage to fulfill a demented notion of a “holy war” on
non-believers. After a siege by police two of the hostages he had taken were
dead along with the gunman.

These
attacks are becoming more frequent, referred to as “lone wolf” events, but in a
larger context, they represent an effort by al Qaeda and the Islamic State,
ISIS, to recruit individuals to wage a war of terror everywhere.

Looking
back over the year, in May Mehdi Nemmouche who had returned to France after
fighting for ISIS, entered the Jewish museum in Brussels and killed four
people. In October Martin Couture Rouleau ran down two Canadian soldiers in
Quebec, killing one of them. The same month, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau killed a
soldier at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa. Also in October, Zale Thompson
attacked four New York police officers with an axe, injuring two in an incident
that was deemed to be an Islamist attack.

In the
wake of these attacks police everywhere are grappling with what they can do to
anticipate and respond. In the attacks that have occurred, the perpetrators
were all known to law enforcement authorities for their extremist views. In
September, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI put out a joint
intelligence bulletin that the Islamic State has the capacity to mount attacks
on U.S. targets overseas with little or no warning. Presumably the warning also
included domestic attacks as well.

At a time
when the threat is real and growing, there are forces in America that have
deliberately sought to undermine public support and trust in the Central
Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, both on the front line of
defense against the Islamist menace. The release of a report by Sen. Diane Feinstein
(D-CA), Senate Intelligence Committee chair, was widely denounced for its
evident failure to interview those named as engaging in “torture” to deter
further attacks. This 20-20 hindsight and reinterpretation of events is an
offense on many levels.

One has to ask why it is always
liberals who are unable to acknowledge an actual threat and defame those charged with preventing them. It is as if they live in
a parallel universe, a make-believe world where our enemies do not exist.

This is
the mind-set that led the President to remove our troops from Iraq, creating a
vacuum that ISIS filled. He is now lowering our role in Afghanistan and the
news of the day is a barbaric attack by the Taliban in Pakistan that has killed
130, mostly school children. Can liberals grasp the barbarity of the Islamist
enemies of our nation and the whole of humanity?

Most
serious, though, are the negotiations with Iran, led by the Obama
administration, that are sure to permit a leading sponsor of terrorism to
acquire its own nuclear weapons.

This is
why many cringed when the anticipated Democratic Party candidate for President,
Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State, recently toutedan approach she
calls “smart power,” urging America to use “every possible tool and partner” to
advance peace. This, she said, includes “leaving no one on the sidelines,
showing respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand and insofar as
psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of
view.”

This
is the classic liberal excuse and attitude for not taking our enemies seriously
when they say they want to destroy America. There isn’t a single justification
for empathizing with people who want to kill you!

I frankly
find the outcry against the nation’s police corps curious and outrageous. In
the Ferguson incident, it was a case of self-defense that got Michael Brown
killed. In Staten Island, it was the unanticipated death of Erik Garner who had
resisted arrest and had a long record of similar offenses. The police did not
set out to kill him, but a combination of his ill health and the takedown
triggered his death.

The
response of the communist Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, was not to defend
his police force, but to join in the condemnation. Around the nation thousands
marched, repeating the lies about Brown’s innocence and the claims about
Garner’s death. The marches, held in a number of U.S. cities, were organized by
groups with an agenda and it was aimed at undermining public support and trust
in our police corps.

Remember,
too, liberals are also opposed to the Second Amendment which empowers Americans
to “keep and bear arms.” There is no way to misinterpret or not understand the
limit this puts on government from the federal to the local level. Even so, the
calls for such limits are constant.

Reportedly,
“according to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey – the leading source of
international public information about firearms – the U.S. has the best-armed
civilian population in the world, with an estimated 270 million total guns.
That’s an average of 89 firearms for every 100 residents.” Liberals translate
this as an invitation to mass murder in the streets and homes of America, but
the reality is that gun ownership prevents criminal mayhem and protects lives.
In states that permit concealed carry, the crime rate is less than in those
that do not.

Liberals,
though, would have you fear your local police force and those agencies that are
tasked with protecting the nation, the CIA and the NSA. And, yes, the FBI too.

If not
resisted, liberals would cause us all to be killed by our nation’s very real
foreign enemies and the domestic perpetrators and criminals who prey on our
society.Next time you see a police man
or woman, take a moment to tell them how much you appreciate their service.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.